# Firmware Intern at WindBorne

- Company: WindBorne
- What the company does: WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere. Backed by Khosla and Pear VC.
- Company website: https://windbornesystems.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Internship
- Location: RWC HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windborne-systems/75c5c65c-8179-4ca0-9659-39bf0f8f7b8b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/windborne-firmware-intern/

## About the role

Develop and maintain drivers & low level libraries for new chips, modules, & sensors Own our custom open source RTOS hardware abstraction layer, Amslah. It has many custom features made for our unique application (I’m excited to tell you about them!) but ​​but requires hardening and architecture refinements as we scale

## What they're looking for

- Experience programming, shipping, and maintaining hardware in a real-world setting
- Must be excited by rapid iteration more than trying to perfectly plan ahead of time
- Fluent in C/C++ and Python. Though ideally you ever so slightly look down on software engineers who only write interpreted languages, but you wouldn’t admit this because you are too nice
- Should have experience writing low-level drivers for a number of various chips
- Should be comfortable reading PCB schematics. Ideally have done a bit of EE yourself :)
- Be able to form hypothesis and run experiments about the behaviour of the system

Tags: Atlas Engineering